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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Zilog stopping Z80 production
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:55:27 GMT
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On a sunny day (23 Apr 2024 13:09:43 GMT) it happened "Peter Heitzer"
<peter.heitzer@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote in
<l8pq8nF5cteU1@mid.individual.net>:

>Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:
>>On a sunny day (Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:23:32 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Dan Purgert
>><dan@djph.net> wrote in <slrnv2f6hk.nch.dan@djph.net>:
>
>>>On 2024-04-23, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>>> After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80
>>>> microprocessor chip Z80 powered game consoles, ZX Spectrum, Pac-Man,
>>>> and a 1970s PC standard based on CP/M.
>>>
>>>Yep, just got the EOL notice from Digikey yesterday.  Shame... 
>
>>Well, I will get over it
>> https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/index.html
>>Wrote a disassembler for it once
>>and a CP/M clone when I had no CP/M only a Sinclair ZX80, later a ZX81 ..
>> https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/index.html
>>Build a lot of hardware for my Z80 system:
>> https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/system14/diagrams/index.html
>>Dumped it all years ago.
>>People were still using the disassembler a few years ago it seems.
>
>>Very nice processor.
>
>>I think I had a Z80 simulator on some old Linux PC once?
>
>>But the world keeps changing...
>>Not always for the better, more bloat every day..
>>If you see Chromium on Raspbery Pi 4 8 GB taking sometimes minutes
>>to display a simple text based website...
>>cache...
>
>>You could probably use the FPGA Z80 version :-)
>> https://opencores.org/projects/a-z80
>The most difficult part is to put all into a 40 pin 300 mil package as
>a drop in replacement. If all I wanted was a machinery to run Z80 software
>my choice wuild be a RP2040 board. 
>https://github.com/djbottrill/rp2040_z80_emulator
>

Wow! did not know about that!
I downloaded the zip file :-)